Garden Steps, The Beeches, 7 Montgomerie Terrace, Skelmorlie

John Honeyman, 1874. Single storey and attic, 4-bay, roughly rectangular-plan, multi-gabled villa with gabled dormers, cast-iron finials and bargeboards to E and W-facing gables (including dormers), canted bay windows to W, decorative Gothic timber porch to E, deep bracketed eaves, single-storey service wing to N, and 20th century conservatory to S. Squared, snecked, tooled red sandstone with Aberdeen-bond stonework to E and polished ashlar dressings. Chamfered ashlar window margins; window hoods to ground floor W-facing windows.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door in stop-chamfered, roll-moulded architrave; sandstone step to door; gothic porch with slate roof, scrolled bargeboards, trefoil carving to gable, and open timber lattice side panels; later bipartite dormer above. Border-glazed staircase window and tripartite window with taller central light to right; gabled bay to left; service wing to outer right with bipartite window.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-leaf glazed door with fanlight to centre; dormer above. Canted bay window at ground to right; dormer above. Slightly advanced gable to left with canted bay window at ground. Service wing to outer left with bipartite window.

N ELEVATION: service wing. Half-glazed timber panelled back door with flanking windows; small window to gable apex.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: late 20th century conservatory at ground (replacing Victorian conservatory); trefoil-headed window at first floor with middle-pointed relieving arch above.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Rendered stacks with fluted yellow clay cans. Graded grey slate.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber panelled inner door to lobby. Round-arched marble chimneypieces with projecting keystones to principal ground-floor rooms; some built-in display cupboards. Curved staircase with barley-twist cast-iron balusters and mahogany hand rail and newel post. Slate shelves in larder. Picture rails, embossed paper friezes, decorative cornicing and ceiling roses to principal rooms; plainer cornicing to bedrooms; timber panelled interior doors throughout.

FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLE: U-plan, 2-storey, gabled coach house. Central range with garage doors (formerly paired arched carriage entrances). Advanced gable to right with timber boarded door and decorative cast-iron lamp bracket to courtyard elevation; dormer window at entrance to flat to E elevation. Single storey piend-roofed section advanced to left.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS, GATES, GARDEN STEPS: coped random rubble sandstone boundary wall. Pyramidal-capped gatepiers. 2-leaf cast-iron gates. Sandstone steps to garden terrace W of house, and beside Coach house.